SOUTH TAMPA – Two local residents hope their organization can link supporters of environmental sustainability with the groups and individuals doing the legwork.

“The green movement is starting to get on people’s radar screen,” said David Reed, co-founder of the Sustany® Foundation. “In order to really drive change, it needs to become a mainstream movement. We believe there are people who want to make change, and we can bridge that gap.”

Reed asked his friend Andrea Cheney, owner of the marketing firm Cheney and Co., to help create Sustany® in 2007.

“We are finding people in the community who are doing things to make all our lives better and helping them with in-kind services, volunteer hours and money,” said Cheney, of Sunset Park.